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Name: Annie the Giraffe
Birthday: 12/7/1907
Gender: Female
Interests: I think it is interesting that people will pick their nose, sing to the radio, and talk on their cell phone all at the same time while sitting at a stop light while the other poor helpless souls in the cars around them watch. Oh yeah. It's interesting.
Expertise: I am a certified expert on being late to class, pronouncing Milligan College (No, it's not Mulligan.), knowing the words to most songs, being loud, finding cheap deals, not being able to match clothes together well and finding cool sunglasses.
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  ouchihrtmyslf
Member Since:
5/4/2004
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| So....A little update for those of you viewing at home....
This is probably the hardest semster of college for me.
17 hours = Statistics, Business Management, Humanites, Lifeguarding and Accouting = A lot of work
*also 3-4 nights at Applebees in E-town.
Feels like I have divorced parents. I live out of my car. Being a commuter kinda sucks.
But being a commuter is also nice. Fast internet, a nice room, nice bathroom, Zoe.... food that does not make you gain 10 pounds a meal....
My car is good. My little home on wheels.
I think I learned the hardest and most depressing thing of my life. I go to a Christian liberal arts school. I work at a resturant. I can count on and trust people I work with (typically non-Christians) more than people I go to school with (so called "Christians"). More Christ-likeness comes out of my older co-workers than Milliganites. Go figure.
But what bothers me the most are people that think that they know me. And then think that they can tell me what is right and wrong with my life. If we do not hang out or talk on a regular basis, then you have no right to let me know what I have done wrong. Back up sister. I'm tired of holier than thou people with their heads stuck in the sand. Welcome to Milligan College.
I love my friends back home. I live for the love and consideration of people that know me. I want to just learn what I need to, get my degree and get the crap out of college. Talk about the biggest speedbump of my life so far. I thought moving in the middle of college would be hard. Wrong. Oh, it was hard. And heartbreaking. But its still so hard to see what God wants for me here. I moved and here I am. A year and half later. At a school with people that rip out phone cords and leave piss in the stairwells. With girls that spill each others secrets and back stab each other. This is our Christian example? No wonder people hate Christians. No wonder people that don't go to church here feel so mistreated and judge. Shoot. I'm one of the Christians and I am almost ashamed of the name.
I could just cry.
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| Passed on from a former coworker @ the Bee's in TN.
The next time you're out eating at a restaurant, look at your server. Do you think they are really happy to be doing that job? The answer is no, they are not, but it's what we do, and we do it for the money so please help them out. It's a tougher job than you think and you should pay them accordingly!
There are SO many people out there flooding the restaurants w/o any knowledge of how to tip. Here is a short guide for the general public to follow. Feel free to print out and store in your wallet and/or purse.
1. CHILDREN "THE LITTLE DEVILS":
If you have children, DO NOT let them, open and dump anything on the table (i.e.; salt, sugar, etc). IF YOU DO, you must leave an extra $5 for the server to clean up YOUR CHILD'S mess & to restock the now unusable wasted items. Don't get mad if you ask for crackers and your server tells you they're out when you just saw another table eating crackers with their soup -- can you blame them for not wanting to clean up the mess afterward? We are neither their babysitter nor their parent. The least you can do is pay us for the extra work. Also make sure you control your kids and don't let them scream or run around the restraunt. It's very distracting not to mention dangerous if they get ran over by a server with hot food in their hands.
2. "THE CAMPERS":
If you feel the necessity to stay for longer than 15 minutes after you pay, its an extra $3 every 30 minutes. We make our money from the tables. If you are in one and we can't seat it, we don't make money.
3. COMPLIMENTS:
Telling a server they are the best server they've ever had is not a tip. If we are good, let us know by leaving us more money. We cant pay our bills on compliments. Its not that we don't appreciate the praise, its just that if you say that and then leave 10% it's an insult.
4. THE SALVATION PAMPHLETS:(I love me some Jesus, but this is definitely frustrating and just freaking riddiculous!)
Prayer cards and any other religious pamphlet is NOT a tip. It is insulting that you assume we are w/o religion and that you must save us. Again, like #3, we cant pay bills w/prayer cards. We'd go to church on Sundays if it wasn't mandatory to work on Sundays because EVERYONE who goes to church follows it by eating out.(And on a side note, we all know that you just left church, so maybe it's ridiculous to think that you'll tip us more than 10% because that's all you give God) Also don't try to preach to us while we are working. We don't go to your work and put you down so don't do it to us.
5. TIPPING:
It is not 1960. Cost of living has gone up dramatically since then. 15-18% is the MINIMUM amount of what you should be tipping your servers. Remember, that steak is $12.99 not $22.99 because restaurants aren't required to pay minimum wage in most states! ($2.13 in Tennessee!) We are taxed on your having tipped us 10 percent of the price of your meal automatically anyway, not to mention the fact that we have to tip out a percentage of our sales - your bill included - to the hosts, bartenders, and bussers. So if you don't leave a tip, WE END UP PAYING FOR YOUR MEAL!! So move that decimal one spot left and multiply by 2 and your server will never be disappointed. ($25 = $2.50 x 2 = $5)
6. THE COMPLAINERS:
If you get a discount because of your food was prepared wrong or something, do not take it out of our tip. We didn't cook it. The cooks get paid hourly regardless if the food sucks. However, we only make what you give us. And don't ever leave a percentage on the total after the discount or comp -- always tip on what the total would have been.
7. THE LATE ONES:
If you come into the restaurant 10 minutes before closing or any time near closing hurry up and order your food and get out. Closed means closed, not social hour. It is so rude to sit there and take your sweet ass time. We can't leave until you leave because we have to do side work and clean the table you are sitting at. We don't want to stand there waiting for you for an extra hour just because you don't want to go home. We recommend 24 hour establishments such as Denny's if you wish to sit into the wee hours of the night.
8. THE TABLE HOGERS:
If you only come in for coffee or a dessert, to do paper work, or to have a meeting, don't sit there taking up our booths for hours. We are not Starbucks or a hotel restaurant. If you want to sit for hours, go there or else you better leave a good tip for us and camping fee included.
9. THE GREET:
When we come up to the table to greet you and we ask how you are doing please let us know. We honestly want to know how you are doing. If you are in a bad mood we want to know that from the beginning. A confused stare or complete silence does not suffice as a reply to "How are you doing?". Also don't interrupt our greeting and say "I want coffee", "can we get some bread, or "what are the soups?"
10. CELL PHONES:
Don't ever talk on your cell phone in a restaurant. This is probably the rudest thing to do. If you must be on your cell, at least keep your voice down in respect for other customers. If you are on your cell phone when we walk up to greet your table we will walk away until you get off your phone. Just show some respect and give us your attention for a couple of minutes.
11. TAKE-AWAY OR TOGOS:
Always remember to tip the take-out order servers! They work just as hard as a server, and hardly ever get tips for it! WE DESERVE TO BE TIPPED TOO! | | |
| so.... i probably need to update.... at least a little.... sooooo....
this is me updating.
i still work at the bees.
i got a car.
i totaled my car.
i'm fine.
i get the car back this week.
summer school is the pits.
8am summer school is the pits.
but 8am BIOLOGY summer school.....
thats the worst.
almost worse than ruining my car.
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| new cell phone number...so, i have a new number. yeah. so. leave a message or something if you want it.
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